The Thing Quotes

What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.

The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.

If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.

That's one thing about me, and I think that's what most of my fans enjoy about me, that I don't hold nothing back. I do exactly what I want to do, and say exactly what I want to say.

Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce.

Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.

Well, Drew. Makes you feel any better. There's one thing that Kelly and this title have in common. They'll never be seen with you.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

They're just opinions, what people say about you. None of that stuff's true. The only thing that matters is what you think of yourself.

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

Let us not worry about the future. Let us only do the right thing Today, At this moment, Here and now. Let the future take care of itself.

The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing.

There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.

Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You’ve got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don’t feel it, nothing will happen.

The hardest thing about the business is minding your own

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours.

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.

Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

In all my years one thing has never changed; You win with serious, tough-minded players. That never changes

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.